Senior Test Architect, Poppulo
€75-115k
+ Variable
Customer & employee communications experience software
Open for applications
Customer & employee communications experience software
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
€75-115k
+ Variable
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses connect people, systems, and ways of working to deepen relationships and move forward together.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium), strong programming skills (Java, TypeScript, or similar), and hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud environments (AWS), and modern engineering practices
- 10+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or test automation, with significant experience in an architectural or leadership role
- Strong programming skills in Java, TypeScript, Python or similar languages used for building automation frameworks
- Deep experience with modern test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework or similar
- Strong understanding of performance testing with tools such as locust, k6, Jmeter
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks across multiple teams or products
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into build and deployment workflows
- Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, including microservices and monolithic architectures
- Experience working with AWS and cloud-native environments
- Strong knowledge of API testing, UI testing, performance testing, and test data management strategies
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable
- Familiarity with event-driven systems and messaging platforms (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.) is a plus
- Strong understanding of observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) as they relate to testing and quality
- Experience with security and compliance considerations in testing (GDPR, PII, etc.)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across teams
- Passion for automation, quality engineering, and continuous improvement
- We encourage you to apply for a position with Poppulo even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Test Architect to lead the design and evolution of our quality engineering and test automation strategy across our SaaS Employee Experience platform
- You will act as a technical leader in test architecture, driving automation-first practices, improving system quality at scale, and enabling teams to deliver reliable, high-performing software
- This role operates across multiple engineering teams, defining and standardising testing strategies, frameworks, and tooling
- You will work closely with engineers, architects, and DevOps to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD integration, and scalable test solutions
- Define and drive the overall test architecture and automation strategy across multiple teams and services
- Design, build, and evolve scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and modern testing libraries
- Establish best practices for automated testing across all layers (unit, integration, API, UI, performance, and end-to-end)
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed testing into the development lifecycle, ensuring high test coverage and fast feedback cycles
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and reliable deployments
- Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to ensure test strategies align with system architecture, including microservices and monolithic applications
- Define and implement strategies for testing distributed systems, including event-driven and asynchronous architectures
- Leverage AWS services and cloud-native patterns to support scalable and efficient test execution
- Drive improvements in test reliability, execution time, and maintainability
- Establish observability and reporting standards for test results, quality metrics and release readiness
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and QE professionals on automation best practices
- Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and approaches to improve quality engineering capabilities
- Ensure testing approaches align with security, compliance, and data protection requirements (e.g., GDPR, PII handling)
- Identify quality risks, gaps, and areas of technical debt, and drive remediation strategies
- Promote a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across teams
Our take
Poppulo delivers the world’s first communications experience platform, Poppulo Harmony, that unites multiple communications channels in one content creation and publishing experience. Through the Harmony platform, businesses can improve both internal and external communications, improving employee engagement and the customer experience.
Poppulo was first launched as an email marketing solution, but it underwent a dramatic rebranding in order to focus on internal communications. This move proved successful, with the company going on to serve thousands of businesses including Santander, Rolls-Royce and ASOS. And in 2021, a merger with Four Winds saw Poppulo valued at around $1B, establishing it as a major player in the communications market.
It was in 2022 that Poppulo released the Harmony platform, adding customer communication capabilities to its employee engagement toolkit, and becoming a one-stop-shop for all its clients' communication needs. Since then, the company has focused on international expansion and strenghthening its leadership team, while contunuing to invest in AI. Most recently, Poppulo became the first digital signage provider to achieve ISO 42001 certification for Responsible AI, reinforcing its position as a trusted, enterprise-ready platform as AI becomes increasingly central to workplace communications.
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Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2019
$35m
LATE VC
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and additional variable compensation
- Remote-friendly working
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to grow and progress
- Wellbeing programs
- Office events and socials
- Top of the range toolset
Company HQ
Civic Center, Denver, CO
Leadership
Ruth F.
(CEO)Prior to joining Poppulo in 2023, Ruth was the COO and President of Commercial Operations at Sovos. She also served as an EVP and GM of Retail/Consumer Payment Solutions & Payment in Public Cloud at ACI Worldwide.
Eoin Byrne
(CPO)Prior to joining Poppulo in 2022, Eoin spent 5 years at Lidl US as a Senior DIrector of HR, Head of HR, and Chief HR Officer. Before that, he worked as the Head of Diversity and Inclusion, HR Engagement at Lidl, Germany and spent nearly 9 years at Lidl Ireland as Sales Operations Manager, Regional Administration Executive and Head of Engagement and Employee Relations.
Mike Shapaker
(CMO)Prior to joining Poppulo in 2023, ike spent 14 years at ChannelAdvisor, holding various roles including VP of Product Management and CMO.
Alejandro Wyszkowski
(CFO)Prior to joining Poppulo in 2025, Alejandro was an Executive Director of Finance and Administration at Vista Equity Partners. He also served as a Chief Business Development Officer/CFO at OPIE Software.
Glenda Kirby
(CCO)Prior to joining Poppulo in 2023, Glenda spent 3 years at Indeed. While there, she was the VP of CLient Success EMEA, SEA, India, Australian & New Zealand. Before that, she spent 5 years at LinkedIn, as a Senior Manager of Customer Success and Director of Customer Success EMEA & LATAM.
Frank Gauld
(CPTO)Frank joined Poppulo in 2024 as CPO, moving into the role of CHief Product & Technology officer in 2025. Previously, he was the CEO at Smart Data Foundry and aizle.ai. He also spent nearly 8 years at NCR Corporation in various roles, including VP of Strategy, Digital & Payments Services and Corporate VP of DIgital First Banking.
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